<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/12 Paul Hopper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hopper@cmu.edu">hopper@cmu.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I think the ? is a replacement for "theta", "th" (dental or interdental<br>
fricative), not a glottal stop.<br>
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Paul<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>You are right, I should have checked before sending my message.</div><div>For the change interdental fricative > h, here are some examples :</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. In Vannetais Breton, primitive breton <th> becomes h. For instance, 'old' coth > koh in vannetais and koz in other varieties of breton (in orthography kozh). See K. Jackson (I can look for the page numbers if you are interested).</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Old Irish <th> becomes h in modern Irish at least in some contexts (word initially in lenited forms, among others).</div><div><br></div><div>GJ</div><div> </div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
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